Apple iPhone 4 and the App Store are both listed in the 2011 Book of World Records

The Apple iPhone 4 and the App Store each received notice, becoming record-holders in the 2011 Book of World Records for breaking records having to do with mobile gaming. For example, with analysts estimating that 1.5 million units of the iPhone 4 having been sold on launch day, the smartphone now holds the record for the "Fastest-Selling Portable Gaming System". The 1.5 million units sold blows away the competition. For example, the Sony PlayStation Portable sold 200,000 models on its 2005 launch date and the Nintendo DS rang up sales of 900,000 units during its first week of existence in November 2004.

The App Store also received notice as the "Most Popular Application Marketplace" and the "Largest Downloadable
Video Game Store." The people behind the 2011 Book of World Records released a statement that said that from the day the App Store opened its doors through September 2010, the online applications store had received over 6.5 billion downloads while hosting 259,740 apps. (In case you are interested, of that total, 61 of the apps are fart simulators). There were 37,362 games in the App Store as of last September, compared to the 1,400 available in Microsoft's Xbox Live Indie Arcade. The App Store also has the title of "Largest Launch Line-up of Any Gaming
System" with over 500 available on the App Store's initial day of business.

Some developers also received recognition. Rovio's Angry Birds is now listed as the "Top Paid-For App Store Game in Most Countries." As of last October, Angry Birds was the top paid-for game in the App Store in a record 67 territories around the globe. Rovio's Peter Vesterbacka told the Global Mobile Internet Conference that total downloads of the game across all platforms had reached a whopping140 million.

Other games besides Angry Birds were up for awards. the "Fastest-Selling iPhone/iPod Strategy Game" with more than 300,000 paid
downloads in its first nine days is PopCap's "Plants vs. Zombies" while "Tap Tap Revenge", with more than 15 million downloads, took the title of "Most Popular iPhone Game Series".

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The iPhone 4 is a phone, a smartphone, but still just a phone. I don't think it's a fair comparison to put it head to head with a PSP or DS, etc. I'm sure most people have put games on their iPhone but it's not a dedicated gaming system. And I bet most people who bought the iPhone weren't getting it for its games.

That's not to say that there aren't any cool games on the iPhone, just it's not the same as other handheld gaming systems.

10.JeffdaBeat (unregistered)

But in that same argument, portal gaming systems aren't completely the Gameboy we were used to. They can play music, movies, and surf the web. They are more akin to portable media players instead of simple gaming systems.

Still, I feel like some analysts and companies put Apple and the iPhone in their mouths just to get attention. And I never like the moniker "Faster selling" just because I wonder how you judge that. Fastest selling in a week? Month?

You're not really making sense other than sounding bitter. I understand though. You cell phones very personally and it sucks that the company you've decided to hate constantly has headlines about how succesful they are. I think you've figured it out. This is kind of like being a sports fan for you. You root for motorola the same way a normal person would root for say the Giants.

You mean those guys who beat the completely undefeated Patriots? I root for Moto because they are trying their heart out to make quality products, and hate Apple because they've made virtually no effort and have spat in the face of their customers and business partners and are congratulated for it.

Yes, it sucks that everyone bends over for Apple, just because their products are pretty and well marketed.

But no, that's not why I'm annoyed.

You have been making deliberate attempts to provoke me, and you hardly listen to anything I say. That's what gets on my nerves, Taco.

I'd love to see the competitions numbers and growth rate. Its a shame that better hardware doesn't make better games for Android. Then again they're missing the software components like current OpenGL support which is a mystery as to why. Even samsungs hummingbird chip has more graphical power but not the software support for things like unreal engine.

7.john (unregistered)

Good Job Apple. But I have to agree with earlier comments. iPhone 4 sold 1.5 million units, but is it because people bought iPhone for the gaming? I don't think so. People bought iPhone 4 because they want a phone and it just so happens that a lot of games is readily made available for the handset.

I think the guinness world record gave up searching for unique talents and just chooses anything you can measure, i should get a record for counting all the eyelashes i rub off every 6 weeks or something. Thats how stupid this app count is.

it's funny how apple fan boys gtet so excited about how their " phone" won records for not being a phone. I figured that's what you would weant to shoot for considering the device's name has phone in it.

"aw man did you see all those records th iPhone set the other day?"

"no, what were they"

"for gaming"

"but isn;t it a phone?"

"well..... yea ,but if my phone doesn't work there's a game i can download to pretend to make calls and get points for the more calls I make"

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